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I have different technical questions I want to ask. I went to Stack Overflow and they blocked registration with a VPN. It's really fucking annoying. I can buy a residential IP to bypass this, but I'd rather just not use these enshitified platforms that are so hostile to VPNs.

Is there any decent alternative to Stack Overflow? I have tried getting AI answers to the technical question but they are not good.

And no, I can't just create a github ID using VPN to login, they block github logins based on IP also.

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[–] someone@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

because it's encrypted by https and my VPN has a decent reputation. Yes, it's possible that the VPN is secretly selling everything they can to big data, but if it were exposed then it would ruin their entire business.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

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